The "wetlands comment" was an attempt at humour, he was just being facetious. That's how I took it. Who knows, this guy seems to have bought many of the left's lies, maybe he also thinks Bush put arsenic into his drinking water.
Farber is totally one of our guys. In this piece he is merely saying that even for the folks who believe all those left absurdities, if they succeed in electing Kerry and spiking our defense in this war, they are going to lose all they hold dear also. If your country loses a major war then you lose the opportunity to implement your ideas at all and you lose all the things you have already done to bring your environmental and socialist Utopia. Conservatives who think W has advanced the socialist agenda more than a crat could and socialists who think Bush is from the wrong social background and is a polluting evil Christian etc. should all put their complaints about W on hold and reelect him to fight this war, continue to work for what we believe in and pray (who/what do lefties pray to?)that whoever follows W in 08 can continue it. By then maybe the lefties might realize that they have to survive before they can legislate Nirvana.